DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1933 11 



PROVINCIAL PARKS 

 Algonquin Park 



The building activities in the Park during the year were limited to those 

 absolutely necessary in order to house the material and equipment and pro- 

 vide accommodation for rangers. Only nine buildings were erected. Ad- 

 vantage was taken of relief labour in the neighbourhood, which assisted the 

 Park staff materially in re-blazing several portions of the Park boundary 

 which were becoming regrown. In addition to this eight and one-half miles 

 of road were cut, seven trails repaired, and many portages changed to shorten 

 and improve travelling facilities. 



The following lakes were restocked with fingerlings and parent fish, 

 consisting of speckled and lake trout to a total of 125,000: 



Lake Species No. of Fish 



Clark's Creek, Airy Speckled 2,000 



McCauley Lake, Sproule Speckled 8,000 



Brewder Lake, Sproule Speckled 4,000 



Costello Lake, Sproule Speckled 6,000 



Cache Lake, Canisbay Lake Trout 20,000 



Madawaska River, between Source and 



White Lakes Speckled 8,000 



Source Lake, Peck Speckled 16,000 



Buck and Doe Lakes, Hunter Lake Trout 8,000 



Brule Lake, Hunter Lake Trout 2,000 



Straight Shore Lake, Hunter Lake Trout 1,000 



Spectacle Lake, Guthrie Speckled 10,000 



Rainbow Lake, Deacon Speckled 15,000 



Hurdman Creek, Boyd Speckled 25,000 



It is interesting to record that fishermen from all other Provinces of 

 Canada, and fourteen States of the Union, one as far South as Florida, took 

 advantage of the fishing possibilities of the Park during the year to a total 

 of 1015. 



There is every evidence that a normal increase of game of all classes is 

 occurring, except in the case of wolves. Moose, although not plentiful, have 

 been reported on a number of occasions from different points. The intensive 

 wolf snaring program, inaugurated in 1931 and continued ever since, has 

 resulted in diminishing these animals. Compared with 128 wolves caught 

 during 1931, and 63 during 1932, only 49 were snared during the last fiscal 

 year. 



During the year 17 persons were convicted for offences of trapping or 

 hunting within the Park boundary. 



The railway transportation was most unsatisfactory, but a motor road 

 in the Southwest portion of the Park, which is now in the course of construc- 

 tion, will improve the situation considerably for this portion at least. 



The telephone equipment has been improved by the establishment of 

 switchboards at Algonquin Park and Whitney, and has proven of very great 

 service to the patrons of the Park and the numerous tourist camps therein. 



